She is now eating 27ml a feed (they also bumped her up to 22cal today) & she is being allowed to breastfeed once a shift, so twice a day. She did a great job today & I think she is getting better at it each day. I'm betting that give her a couple weeks for her tiny mouth to get a little bit bigger and bam, I'm sure she will be a champion breastfeeder! She is still learning now, and is getting a great latch, but has a hard time keeping a good latch... so I'm really hopeful that when it comes time to really feed & not just an attempt, that she will still be just as awesome! Still no Bradycardia or apnea episodes during feeds, which I'm soo thankful for.
Speaking of breastmilk... Check out my AMAZING supply!!!
All this breastmilk talk might be a lot of TMI, but it's also a great accomplishment for Presley for how great she is doing & amazing for myself because I have such a great supply this time around! With Miss Liberty, I had to REALLY work for every drop & I pumped every 2hrs for 8 and half weeks straight, used fenugreek (all that did was make me basically a walking pancake lol), ate oatmeal, drank my weight in water, for hardly any milk. So this time around I actually have milk to go in the freezer.... In TWO bins!!! I just want to toot my own horn for a minute & say GO me, because I am soo proud of my boobies that finally work! They're basically the only part of my body that decided to actually work in the whole childbirth/pregnancy saga of mine, so I'm proud of them. It's really helped my attitude this time around, because I know that the best thing I can do for Presley is to pump for her. So with all the milk I'm pumping, I don't feel so worthless.
Just as I was about to write about Presley not having any apnea episodes and doing great cannula wise, she decides to have a brady & apnea episode. It's the first one I've seen in a few days, and still relatively normal for her gestational age (she's 32+2) and she resolved it fairly quickly and on her own which is good. She's only had a few apnea episodes where they've had to give her more oxygen but that was when she was just getting off the vent. They're thinking of moving her down to half a liter on her low flow cannula & are hopeful that she could be off the canula completely by this weekend!! That would be amazing, but I also know things could change, so I'm not crossing my fingers just yet.
She had a pretty big residual tonight after her 8pm feed. That & the apnea episode she had, it has me a little stressed out tonight. All in all though, she is a RoCkStAr & is doing AMAZING for what she could be doing. Thank You to all the prayers that just keep coming, we appreciate them so much!
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